Senior Technical Officer, Strategic Evolution
CDPLondon, England, United Kingdom
Added 13 Jul · still live
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About the role
Title - Senior Technical Officer, Strategic Evolution
Location - London
Salary -£32,157 - £40,197
About CDP:
CDP is a global non-profit that runs the world’s only independent environmental disclosure system. As the founder of environmental reporting, we believe in transparency and the power of data to drive change.
Partnering with leaders in enterprise, capital, policy and science, we surface the information needed to enable Earth-positive decisions. We helped more than 24,800 companies and almost 1,000 cities, states and regions disclose their environmental impacts in 2024. Financial institutions with more than a quarter of the world’s institutional assets use CDP data to help inform investment and lending decisions.
Our team is truly global, united by our shared desire to build a world where people, planet and profit are balanced. Visit cdp.net or follow us @CDP to find out more.
About the Team:
Disclosure Content is responsible for the strategic development, maintenance, and delivery of CDP’s disclosure framework (question bank, reporting guidance, and scoring). The disclosure framework provides environmental information to investors, customers, and other data users, and drives companies’ actions to transition to a sustainable economy. Within Disclosure Content, the Strategic Evolution team is responsible for developing CDP’s disclosure framework in response to strategic projects, standard and framework alignment, and other evolving needs of the organization. We work closely with other teams and functions across CDP to implement environmental reporting best practices and pioneer new areas of environmental disclosure.
About this role:
This role will provide technical, scientific, and analytical expertise to develop and ensure the high quality of CDP’s disclosure framework, to drive corporate environmental disclosure and action, on both corporate disclosure and cities, states and regions (CStaR). This includes the CDP question bank, reporting guidance, scoring methodologies and resulting data.
What you will do:
Location - London
Salary -£32,157 - £40,197
About CDP:
CDP is a global non-profit that runs the world’s only independent environmental disclosure system. As the founder of environmental reporting, we believe in transparency and the power of data to drive change.
Partnering with leaders in enterprise, capital, policy and science, we surface the information needed to enable Earth-positive decisions. We helped more than 24,800 companies and almost 1,000 cities, states and regions disclose their environmental impacts in 2024. Financial institutions with more than a quarter of the world’s institutional assets use CDP data to help inform investment and lending decisions.
Our team is truly global, united by our shared desire to build a world where people, planet and profit are balanced. Visit cdp.net or follow us @CDP to find out more.
About the Team:
Disclosure Content is responsible for the strategic development, maintenance, and delivery of CDP’s disclosure framework (question bank, reporting guidance, and scoring). The disclosure framework provides environmental information to investors, customers, and other data users, and drives companies’ actions to transition to a sustainable economy. Within Disclosure Content, the Strategic Evolution team is responsible for developing CDP’s disclosure framework in response to strategic projects, standard and framework alignment, and other evolving needs of the organization. We work closely with other teams and functions across CDP to implement environmental reporting best practices and pioneer new areas of environmental disclosure.
About this role:
This role will provide technical, scientific, and analytical expertise to develop and ensure the high quality of CDP’s disclosure framework, to drive corporate environmental disclosure and action, on both corporate disclosure and cities, states and regions (CStaR). This includes the CDP question bank, reporting guidance, scoring methodologies and resulting data.
What you will do:
- Contribute to the development of the question bank, reporting guidance, and scoring methodologies – across environmental disclosure, both for corporate disclosure and cities, states and regions. Including:
- Prioritizing data points/metrics from relevant sustainability standards/frameworks and translating these into developments for the evolution of CDP’s corporate question bank and reporting guidance.
- Analysing response data and conducting desk-based research.
- Drafting and proofreading technical documents.
- Provide subject matter expertise and analytical support across CDP’s broader activities, including contributing to funded
- projects, publications, consultations, and engagement events.
- Deliver internal presentations/webinars.
- Support the planning, implementation, and optimization of processes related to the evolution and delivery of CDP’s question bank, guidance, and scoring methodologies.
- Author, edit and test questions and guidance content in CDP’s online disclosure systems.
- Supporting alignment of processes and content development between corporate and CStaR question bank, reporting guidance, and scoring development.
- Ensuring you know what is expected of you, through regular 1:1s, having clear objectives in place, and participating in open and honest performance and development conversations.
- Ensuring a respectful and inclusive workplace, where team members communicate openly, share knowledge so it can be used, and respect difference.
- Living the CDP Values and demonstrating the behaviours appropriate to your position.
External stakeholders include: Disclosing Organizations, NGO Partners, Standards and Frameworks setters, and Data users.
We're looking for:
- A relevant academic qualification.
- Professional experience in a role related to environmental issues.
- Technical expertise in corporate environmental disclosure.
- A demonstrable understanding of the global sustainability agenda and of environmental-related risks, opportunities, impacts, and dependencies for companies and the public sector.
- Ability to design, implement, and refine operational processes to drive efficiency.
- A high standard of written English and the ability to present complex information in a simple and concise way.
- Excellent research and analytical skills, and strong attention to detail.
- The ability to organize and interpret qualitative and quantitative data.
- A high level of motivation, with a confident and collaborative working style.
- Strong time management and organizational skills, with an ability to work effectively and accurately under pressure.
- The ability to work effectively and efficiently with team members of different technical and cultural backgrounds.
Final offer amount depends on multiple factors such as candidates experience and expertise, geographic location, total compensation, and market data.
This is a permanent contract based at CDP’s London office. Interested applicants must be eligible to work legally in the UK and live within a commutable distance of the London office and be comfortable with 2 days in the office per week. We cannot sponsor this role.
Before you apply :
We’ll only use the information you provide to process your application. For more details on how we use your information, see our applicant’s privacy notice. By uploading your CV and covering letter, you are permitting CDP to use the information you have provided for recruitment purposes.
How to apply:
Please upload your CV in English via the application form. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis so early applications are encouraged.
This description is the source posting as it read when we added it. We are not affiliated with CDP, so check their own site for the current details.
Where this offer sits in the market
SOC 3119 · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · ~131k in sampleP25 £29kP75 £47k
£24kmedian £36k£57k
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